Data and Cyber Associate/Senior Associate

The Team:

Our client’s Data & Cyber team provides guidance to a diverse group of clients in various industries regarding cyber incidents, regulatory responses, technology and data-related claims, and cyber/technology insurance coverage. They are known for their expertise in cyber incident response and their comprehensive understanding of the insurance market, which allows them to assist clients throughout the entire process of a cyber event and its associated risks, including immediate breach response and crisis management, policy notification and coverage strategy, as well as regulatory engagement and dispute resolution.

The Role:

The London team is seeking to recruit an Associate (1-4PQE) and Senior Associate (4-8PQE) who will support Partners in delivering cyber and technology insurance and coverage work, alongside associated cyber response and data regulatory matters. The role is primarily focused on advising insurers and insureds on breach response insurance issues, policy interpretation and claims strategy, including large and complex multi-insurer cyber coverage claims.

As the Data & Cyber team continues to expand our services to clients outside of the insurance industry, this role will also serve corporates on non-insured cyber incidents, pre-breach preparation, internal and external communications support following a breach and breach remediation activities alongside trusted technical cyber partners.

The Associate will also support on high-pressure incident response mandates (including ransomware/cyber extortion scenarios) and related privacy/regulatory workstreams, ensuring coverage considerations are integrated with practical breach response and stakeholder management. The role involves direct client contact and coordination with brokers, forensic and incident response providers, and counsel where appropriate, and the Senior Associate role will supervise junior lawyers.

Required Experience:

• Experience in cyber breach response, insurance coverage and/or cyber/technology claims work (gained in private practice, in-house, or in a comparable setting).
• Demonstrable experience advising on cyber/tech insurance coverage, including breach response insurance policies; experience of large or multi-insurer claims is highly desirable.
• Understanding of cyber incident response workflows and the ability to advise calmly under time pressure, working effectively with all stakeholders such as CISOs, in-house counsel, brokers, insured stakeholders and technical incident response providers.
• Experience of technology and data-related claims/disputes (including ADR and, ideally, litigation/arbitration) and familiarity with technology EO exposures.
• Working knowledge of UK regulatory engagement considerations (including ICO interaction) sufficient to identify and support incident-led regulatory and claims workstreams.
• Strong drafting and analytical skills, good commercial judgement, project management experience and the ability to manage multiple matters with competing deadlines.
• Confident communicator with proven ability to build client relationships and collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Able to work efficiently and commercially and understand the importance of engagement financial hygiene.
• Good attention to detail and excellent organisational skills.
• Committed to being part of a supportive, inclusive and collaborative firm culture.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office.